PC favorite Vehicles in Twilight

[Adm.Lee]

My favorite (and/or most memorable) group that I've run was probably my first campaign. It lasted almost a year in real-time, and they rolled a significant number of "Derelict" random encounters. At one time or another, they had an M1(A1), a LAV-75 (sounded so cool from the description); neither with any main-gun ammo), an M113, and I think a BMP, with at least one HMMWV and more than one 2.5-tonners. Not all of these were running at the same time, but they sure tried.

I suspect their favorite was the M1, mine may have been the -75.

The few times I've been a player, I've hoped for an M113 on the vehicle table.
I read an article before I played T2k about the Scorpion and its family, and those always sounded really handy, but I've never played/run in a game with one.

[ChalkLine]

I have a mate who was in the REME in Northern Ireland and Germany and his house game had a pair of AT-105 Saxons.

For those who don't know Saxons are a V-Hull and probably had the strongest mine mitigation design in NATO for a medium vehicle. Like many personnel carriers the rear seats are removable to convert the Saxon into a cargo carrier.
This low/medium intensity design makes it a great vehicle for T2K gypsy soldiers because it makes a great light truck that can take incidental abuse. It can carry about 10 troops in the rear or about one to two tonnes of junk as well as more stuff in an overhead rack under the armour, and that's before you start hanging junk off the outside.

The standard version in the 1990s was the AT-105E which had a machine gun turret rather than the open pintle the original vehicle had, some of these turrets were spares from the FV432 APC; a small one-man turret with a roof hatch, periscopes and an FN-MAG.

So yeah, a two-man cargo carrier that's also a high mobility very lightly armoured combat vehicle that uses little fuel and is easy to work on.

https://www.armyrecognition.com/united_kingdom_british_army_wheeled_vehicle_uk/at105_saxon_4x4_armoured_vehicle_personnel_carrier_technical_data_sheet_specifications_description_u.html

Here's a model of one with the turret, the only turreted image I could find

[Nyrond24]

Ran a Californian campaign last year and the party had a ancient LVTP-5 fron a scrap yard / depot, it was a realy great machine and they loved it, massive cargo, amphibious and with enough armour to stop small arms.I always let characters figure out what vehicles they want to keep from what they get or capture

[Cypher]

I have a mate who was in the REME in Northern Ireland and Germany and his house game had a pair of AT-105 Saxons.

For those who don't know Saxons are a V-Hull and probably had the strongest mine mitigation design in NATO for a medium vehicle. Like many personnel carriers the rear seats are removable to convert the Saxon into a cargo carrier.
This low/medium intensity design makes it a great vehicle for T2K <snip>

I believe its been converted to more 'modern' uses as well in Ukrainian service, acting as a drone carrier among other things. They're reportedly really popular with the troops, quite the turnaround from their rep in British service!

[Raellus]

LAV-25 FTW

I've had a thing for the LAV-25 ever since I set eyes on the content of the v1 box set.

THIS has reignited my pre-teen wheeled AFV crush:

https://forum.juhlin.com/showthread.phpt=6095

I've also grown quite fond of the BTR-80, since one, a former DDR example affectionately called, Der Krokodil, has featured prominently in a long-running campaign in which I play.

IIRC, we had a favorite PC vehicle poll here at one point. I'll post a link here if I can find it.

[Raellus]

As Promised

It only listed APCs/IFVs as options, but here it is:

https://forum.juhlin.com/showthread.phpt=2197&highlight=favorite+afv

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[Tegyrius]

I've had a thing for the LAV-25 ever since I set eyes on the content of the v1 box set.

THIS has reignited my pre-teen wheeled AFV crush:

https://forum.juhlin.com/showthread.phpt=6095

I am happy to be a bad influence on you, Rae.

- C.

[StainlessSteelCynic]

I believe its been converted to more 'modern' uses as well in Ukrainian service, acting as a drone carrier among other things. They're reportedly really popular with the troops, quite the turnaround from their rep in British service!

There seems to be a large difference between the British and the Ukrainians in their use of the AT-105, with the Ukrainians choosing to use the vehicle in manner better suited for which it was designed. That is to say, the AT-105 was meant to be used as a protected transport/cargo/utility vehicle and not as a frontline APC.
I believe the original design intention was for it to be used to transport troops/cargo from the rear to the front - similar to an APC but not the 'same', the AT-105 is more accurately, an armoured GS truck.